Since Darwin's time, the phenomenon known as flower constancy -- i.e., where insects consistently visit the same flower type even when many others are also present -- has been understood as a passive ...

Sigmund Freud had a nephew named Ernst with whom he would play peek-a-boo. Freud would hold a teddy bear at the edge of Ernst's crib and then drop it out of sight. Ever the scientist, Freud noticed ...

Life constantly throws things at you, and your ability to respond constructively is vital. However, this first requires that you modify your immediate reaction to triggers. When you're mentally and ...

Why is an object’s size perceived the same regardless of changes in distance? A group of researchers at Osaka University found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in ...

We know that neurons of different shapes perform different computations. But do the different shapes also help to make their functions more similar? Hermann Cuntz, researcher at the Ernst Strüngmann ...

Scientists have found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in the visual cortex, calculate the size of an object based on information on its retinal image size and ...

Even when we consciously know two lines are the same length, why can't we help seeing them as different? ILLUSIONS ARE ANOMALIES that can reveal clues about the mysterious workings of the brain to ...

Optical illusions come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of stupidity. There was the blurry ham picture that made Reddit scratch its head. (Really.) And the one that turned out to just be a cigar ...